Enterprise:Engineering:Resources

Contents 1 Navigation 2 Related categories 3 About this page 4 Various resources for the enginnering practice 4.1 Software engineering resources 4.2 High Availability systems 4.3 Operating Systems resources 4.4 Quality engineering resources 5 Embedded and Electronics engineering 5.1 Hardware design 5.2 Electro Magnetic Compliance 5.3 Serial-link troubleshooting 6 Other resources for hardware and electronics engineering 6.1 DSP resources 6.2 PowerPC resources 6.3 Other RISC Processor resources 6.4 Intel Processors 6.5 Network processors 6.6 Emulators 7 Information technology in retail industry - points of sale 8 Data communications in avionics 9 RAID information 10 Information technology in medicine 11 SAN-related information and resources 11.1 Infiniband 11.2 iSCSI 12 Innovation in Engineering 13 Publications 14 General-interest resources

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Various resources for the enginnering practice

Most of the resources below are useful for Engineering in Software, Hardware or Electronics

Software engineering resources

• IT resources and news [1]
• File and data format resources [2]
• IT, hardware and networking resources [3]
• All about IT [4]
• IT articles and whitepapers [5]
• IT resources [6]
• Software Engineering Management resources [7]
• International comitee for IT standards [8]
• Tool for modeling sequence diagrams [9]
• Beowulf cluster computing [10]
• Data compression resources [11]
• ECMA C# standards [12]
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge [13]
• Publisher of non-commercial university-created software [14]
• Object Oriented technology resources for Systems Engineers [15]
• Software POinters' listings of Software Engineering resources [16]
• O'Reilly Open Book catalogue [17]
• Free Computer Books [18]
• Directory of Computer File Systems and Network File Systems
• Internet UPC Database with XML-RPC query interface
• Universal Remote Console Consortium [19] - adopted by ANSI
• URC V2 – An Emerging Universal Remote Console Standard [20]
• Open Standards [21] - links to web pages for groups producing open standards
• Time & Date resources [22]

High Availability systems

• Fault-tolerant computing [23]
• Highly Available Embedded Computer Platforms [24]
• Data-center tier performance standard - fault-tolerant data-center power design [25]

Operating Systems resources

• Operating Systems - online guides [26]
• Information on Operating Systems [27]
• Defending Linux through patents [28]
• Free Operating Systems directory [29]
• Resources TRU64 Digital Unix for Alpha [30]
• ECOS Realtime OS [31]
• LynxOS - a Linux-based Real-time Operating System [32]

Quality engineering resources

• CMMI home page at the Software Engineering Institute [33]
• Engineering & quality management resources [34]
• Software Quality Institute [35]
• European software institute [36]
• Quality management resources [37]
• Configuration Management resources guide [38]
• Software Disasters are often People Problems [39]
• Engineering Disasters and Learning from Failure [40]
• Don Norman's "Human Error and the Design of Computer Systems" and commentary

Embedded and Electronics engineering

• Tech Info Pages - various IT and electronics technical resources [41]
• NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) [42]
• Microprocessor instruction cards [43]
• Electronics Engineering resources [44]
• Electronics Engineering links [45]
• Embedded Engineering resources [46]
• Real-time engineering articles [47]
• Real-time engineering resources [48]
• Design of Object-Oriented Real-time Systems [49]
• Software Defined Radio (SDR) forum [50] and resources
• Some hard to find Visio stencils, Visio templates and Visio drawings [51]
• Zelscope "Soft oscilloscope" for Windows [52]
• JTAG resources
  • uCLinux directory - JTAG pages [53]
  • Introduction to the JTAG Boundary Scan Interface [54]
  • Introduction to JTAG Boundary Scan [55]
  • A Guide to online information about Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.4 [56]
  • IEEE STD 1149.1 (JTAG) Testability Primer [57]
  • JTAG FAQ [58]
  • JTAG Adapters and software [59]
• The Robotics WEBook - theory and the technology behind robots, machine tools, and mechatronic devices [60]
• Open Robot Control Software [61]
• ERS Wireless Sensors [62]

Hardware design

• OpenCores VHDL core designs SIG [63]
• VHDL archive & resources [64]
• VHDL synthesis interoperability SIG [65]
• VHDL resources [66]
• Interface Circuits for TIA/EIA-485 [67]

Electro Magnetic Compliance

• Keith Armstrong's Design techniques for EMC page
  • Circuit Design, and Choice of Components
  • Cables and Connectors
  • Filters and Surge Protection Devices
  • Shielding
  • PCB Design and Layout
  • ESD, Dips, Flicker, Dropouts, Electromechanical Switching, and Power Factor Correction
• Keith Armstrong's EMC Testing page
  • Radiated Emissions
  • Conducted Emissions
  • Fast Transient Burst, Surge, Electrostatic Discharge
  • Radiated immunity
  • Conducted Immunity
• EMC for Systems and Installations
  • Commercial need for EMC and the relevance to EMC of 'ground' or 'earth'
  • EMC techniques for installations
  • EMC techniques in assembly
  • Filtering and Shielding
  • Lightning and Surge Protection
  • CE + CE =/= CE! What to do instead

Serial-link troubleshooting

• The HHD Software Serial Monitor tools [68]
• The Teraterm serial terminal emulator [69]

Other resources for hardware and electronics engineering

• Electronics components source [70]
• Transmeta Corp - maker of the Crusoe chip and LOngrun2 technology [71]
• Universal PnP (UPnP) resources [72] and architecture
• Matt's Electronic resources [73]
• Heatsink guide [74]
• The Hardware book [75]
• Tom's hardware guide [76]
• Hardware central forums [77]
• Processors, computers, etc [78]
• Tech terms [79]
• gpsinformation.net - The GPS resource directory

DSP resources

• The Chirp z-Transform [80]
• Steven Smith's DSP Book online [81] (local copy)
• Numerical recipes in C/C++ and Fortran [82] (local copy)
• DSP Guru - resources [83]
• FXT DSP software library [84]
• DSP algorithms for programmers [85] (local copy)
• Open Sound System - sound device drivers [86]
• Sampling Theorem articles [87]
• DSP articles and tutorials [88]
• Signals, samples and stuff - DSP tutorial part 1 and part 2
• Tutorial on TMS320C6000 VelociTI architecture [89]
• TMS320C6000 reference [90]
• The z-Transform primer [91]

PowerPC resources

• The PowerPC architecture book [92]
• PowerPC resources from IBM [93]
• IBM Power Architecture technology [94]
• IBM Linux on POWER technical library [95]
• IBM OpenPower project - Open Source development resources for Power Architecture [96]
• OSU Open Source Lab - Development resources for Linux on Power Architecture [97]
• Power.org - the Power Architecture community [98]
• Freescale (formerly Motorola SPS) - Power Architecture Processors product portfolio [99]
• Altivec technology page - signal-processing extensions for the PowerPC Architecture [100]
• Power Architecture Developer Connection [101]
• PowerPC Linux Magazine [102]
• AMCC embedded embedded PowerPC processors and evaluation boards runnin OpenWRT Linux
• Genesippc "EFIKA 5200B boards based on MPC5200B PowerPC "System on a chip" [103]
• Cyclades TS 100 low-cost PowerQUICC-based server appliance [104] and software downloads
• Operating systems for the PowerPC architecture [105]
  • MorphOS - enhanced AmigaOS for PowerPC [106]
  • Munos - a microkernel operating system
  • OPen Solaris for PowerPC ARchitecture [107]

Other RISC Processor resources

• ARM resources (local copy)
• MIPS resources (local copy)
• MIPS32 cores [108]
• The SIM.ONE ARM-based development platform appliance - ARM resources

Intel Processors

• Embedded Intel Architecture [109]
• Intel XScale processors - based on ARMv5TE core architecture

Network processors

• Network Systems Design Using Network Processors [110]
• The EZchip Network Processor family [111]
• Network Systems Design - Network Processors [112]
• Network Processor Architectures [113]
• Basics of Packet Switching [114]
• VoIP processors from Octasic

Emulators

• Bochs IA-32 (x86) emulator [115]
• PSIM - a PowerPC emulator, bundled with GDB [116] and (documentation).
• Macintosh and Atari emulation software [117]
• QEMU - generic open source machine emulator and virtualizer [118]
• Q - a PC emulator running on Mac OSX, based on QEMU [119]
• iEmulator - a PC emulator for Windows and Mac OSX, based on QEMU [120]
• Microsoft Virtual PC [121]
• Comparison of virtual machines and emulators [122]
• Comparison of server virtualization technologies [123] (local copy)
• Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ [124]
• CHARON VAX & PDP-11 hardware emulation software on Windows and OpenVMS [125]
• HP's OpenVMS operating system for the VAX, AlphaServer and Integrity platforms [126]
• Dynamips, the Cisco platform emulator [127]
• SPIM - a MIPS32 emulator [128]
• The MIPS architecture emulators page [129]
• Virtuozzo - a commercial, high-performance, OS-level hypervisor-model virtualization solution for Windows and Linux, held in high esteem by Hosting Providers, based on the containers-type OpenVZ virtualization on Linux (the Virtuozzo Wiki)

Information technology in retail industry - points of sale

• Unified POS architecture [130]
• Java Platform for POS (JavaPOS) [131]

Data communications in avionics

• ARINC tutorial (local copy)
• Bus architectures for safety-critical embedded systems [132]
• Communication protocols in Aeronautics [133]
• MIL-STD-1553 Tutorial [134]

RAID information

• RAID information [135]
• Chapt 4 (RAID) - Adaptec Certified Storage Professional [136]
• "RAID & beyond" presentation [137]
• RAID Primer [138]
• RAID Theory [139]
• RAID Tutorial [140]

Information technology in medicine

• DICOM resources [141]

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard was created by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) to aid the distribution and viewing of medical images, such as CT scans, MRIs, and ultrasound.

• DICOM Standard Status [142]
• The IEEE 1073 standards for medical device communication [143]
• Medical Personal Data Assistant (MPDA) [144]
• ACG telemedicine reference architecture [145]
• Point-of-care medical device communication Standards [146]
• Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability [147]
• Medical Image Processing and Biomedical Engineering and Physics resources

SAN-related information and resources

• Cisco Press "Storage Area Network Fundamentals" [148]
• Network Storage - The Basics - articles series [149]
• Getting Beyond M&M SANs - SAN security [150]
• Storage Network Industry Association [151]
• Fujitsu "Eternus SF" Storage Management Solution (formerly Softek SanView) [152]
• Storage Management ROI - Softek WP [153]
• Virtual Storage Pools - Datacore WP [154]
• Demystifying Storage Networking [155]
• HP SAN Design Reference Guide [156]
• IBM Redbook - IP Storage networking [157]
• TCP Offload Engine tutorial [158]
• Convergence of Networking and Storage - Cisco presentation [159]

Infiniband

• Infiniband Trade Association [160]
• An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture [161]
• Infiniband architecture [162]
• Infiniband Linux project [163]
• Infiniband resources [164]

iSCSI

• RFC 3720 - Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) [165]
• iSCSI Storage - IP Network Storage Trends [166]
• iSCSI Technical White Paper [167]
• Open-iSCSI project [168]
• Introduction to iSCSI [169]
• HP iSCSI whitepaper [170]

Innovation in Engineering

• IEI's Creativity Machine Paradigm [171]
• Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - fundamental research lab at DOE [172]
• Kevin Gurney's Neural Nets page [173]
• Advanced research projects at IBM [174]
• IEEE1275 Open Firmware initiative [175]
• Microsoft research [176]
• Blog of Social Computing Group and Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research [177]
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) [178]
• The Information Exchange on innovation practices
• The T5000 Thruvision camera, using low energy Terahertz or T-ray radiation emitted by the human body in order to detect objects under clothes from up to 80 feet away

Publications

• Computerworld online magazine [179]
• CIO magazine [180]
• The Embedded magazine [181]
• EETimes magazine [182]
• The Wired magazine [183]
• ACM Crossroads magazine [184]
• Communications Standards Review [185]
• Electronics Test and Measurement world [186]
• ThomasNet Industrial NewsRoom - comprehensive source of new and timely product information in the industrial marketplace

General-interest resources

• Global Standards for all engineering disciplines [187]
• IBM patents repository [188]
• The Eco-Patent Commons - a public library of shared innovations and patents geared at environmental sustainability
• Standards resources [189]
• IEEE Communications Society [190]
• ECMA International - Standards Index and Technical Reports
• Gary Perlman's home page [191]
• Standards resources [192]
• Huge online subscription-based library of technical books [193]
• Computer Society - Software & Systems Engineering Standards Comitee [194]
• Computer Engineering links [195]
• Standardization organizations [196]
• Various communications standards [197]
• Introductory Engineering Design, a project-based approach - online eBook [198]
• Engineering design and communication toolbox [199]
• The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology [200]
• Cisco networking Visio stencils and icons
• A Generic, Adaptive Systems Engineering Information Model [201]
• Skunkworks - its birth at Lokheed Martin and current status
• Engineering humor [202]
• Communication Standards Review acronyms collection [203]
• Systems Engineering History (local copy)
• NIST publications list [204]
• Complete list of O'Reilly books with downloadable code samples [205]
• OpenGL - the high performabce graphics standard [206]
• Dan Kegel's Web Hostel - various information-technology and telecom resources
• Freeware software catalogue from dirfile
• The Mesh - a Special Interest Group of professionals pushing for the collaborative foundation and promotion of community wireless, open-source-based projects in tropical and remote regions
• The European Comitee for Interoperable Systems - a special interest group promoting interoperability between Open Source and Microsoft technologies
• ABI Research Vendor Matrix - an Emerging Technologies classification, analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of technology vendors' positions in specific markets (member access required)
• Knowledge if Free - a site dedicated to the promotion of free eBooks, through the eBooks Portal and RealTime Publishers
• Encyclopedia of Keywords - a general encyclopedia containing more than 180,000 articles and having its own web-bot that is looking for short recognizable phrases on different websites
• The Sys-Con Hi-Tech and Information-technology news network
• The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)